Cosmic Relaxation

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"I’m not sure I do feel I belong to myself. There are two sides to me. (...) I’m very conscious of my duality in lots of ways, sort of like a split personality. I’m always conscious of that debate between the two selves. Like black/white, day/night, dull/bright." - Paul [Guardian, 2001]

"I'm trying for music that isn't too romantic, yet contains a romantic thing. I personally don't like things to be too cute - except babies. My music comes off best, I think, when there's hard and soft together." - Paul [1971]

"When you’re a kid you think things will be straightforward, but when you’re older and you’ve experienced more, you realise it’s an everlasting war between good and bad." - Paul in The Lyrics

The other me would rather be the glad one The other me would rather play the fool But I want to be the kind of me That doesn't let you down as a rule - The Other Me" [written in 1982]

Paul has an artistic side that isn't level-headed, and I like that. Most of his down-to-earthiness comes from living with a good family. He was taught good values. His inner talent is just there. He also has his mad side, but he saves it for home. His mind is amazing. Although his roots are earthy, he's up in the sky on other things. - Linda [1989]

“Paul is like a beautiful two-headed monster." - Donovan [Mojo interview, 2008]

"I mean I love the idea that there are two people in my head. Well, at least two."  - Paul in The Lyrics

Self portrait by Paul McCartney

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Another self portrait from 1967.

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Paul McCartney’s school teacher Alan Durband is interviewed in Australia, 1965.

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Paul McCartney and Jeff Buckley at the Roseland Ballroom, NYC, 2 June 1995.

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Some more pictures and quotes about this meeting:

“Paul and Linda McCartney had come to see Jeff play that night and after the performance they came into the dressing room to meet him. I remember Linda McCartney saying that she had known his father Tim and had taken some photos of him – they seemed to be honoring Jeff, coming to see him backstage. When I look at that picture of Jeff I really get that he was trying to keep his cool, but his eyes are saying, ‘Can you believe it?!’ He was very excited.” – Merri Cyr

“She was gushing all over him, as was Paul. Now his career was really off and running.” – Danny Fields

Also an interesting story at this page about the meeting and Linda’s potential psychic abilities: https://revolutionrockallyouneedismusic.wordpress.com/2019/04/23/jeff-buckley-meets-paul-and-linda-mccartney/

[bambi-kinos]

“SHEFF: Do you ever feel that you’ve missed [Paul] artistically, musically? JOHN: No. I mean, we worked together partly because the demand on us was tremendous. They’d want a record, a single, every three months, and we’d do it in twelve hours in a hotel or a van. So the cooperation was functional as well as musical. SHEFF: And you don’t think that cooperation, that magic between you, is something you’ve missed n your work since? JOHN: I never actually felt a loss. I don’t want it to sound negative, like I didn’t need Paul, because when he was there, obviously, it worked. But I can’t—it’s easier to say what my contribution was to him than what he gave to me. And he’d say the same.”

— John Lennon, interview w/ David Sheff for Playboy. (September, 1980) (Note: Listen to this part of the interview recording here.)

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